Chapter 69 Tribute Instructions

Quan Jiu took out the second copy of the copied physical technique and said, "Official, this second copy has also been copied." ”

I looked at it, and compared to the first one, it was more neatly arranged: "Jiu'er, what do you think you understand about the content above?" ”

"Official, Jiu'er actually doesn't know anything, but I think this arithmetic article is very interesting, maybe Jiu'er has been sensitive to numbers since she was a child, but she didn't understand it."

"Numbers?"

"Yes, when Jiu'er was very young, he liked to play with the abacus, when his father was alive, he worked as a government account office for a period of time, and his father felt dizzy when he looked at the numbers, so a lot of data was calculated by Jiu'er."

I suddenly had a move in my mind, and wrote down ten Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2 to 9 on the paper, and said, "Jiu'er, come and see." ”

Quan Jiu was puzzled: "What is this?" ”

"This is 1, which represents one, this is 2, corresponding to two, 9 corresponding to nine, and 0 corresponding to zero, is it more convenient to write this way?"

"One, two, nine, what about ten?"

"Ten writes so, 10, one hundred writes 100."

Quan Jiu exclaimed, "Oh my God, this is much simpler. It's just that there are additions and subtractions, so how do you get these? ”

I asked Quan Jiu to sit next to him and began to talk about how to write Arabic numerals, arithmetic, etc.

"This represents the number of digits, such as ten, hundred, this is the round, and it is the same as our original calculation, but the Chinese characters are simplified to this number......"

As I spoke, I kept writing on the paper.

After hearing this, Quan Jiu said excitedly: "This is too convenient for bookkeeping in the accounting room, official, you are really a god." ”

"Jiu'er, you sorted out my writing. It's not just the bookkeeper, I think everyone in the world can learn this way of writing. ”

Quan Jiu nodded vigorously and said, "Well, this is not difficult, it is easy to learn, and it should be able to be promoted in my direction soon." ”

"Jiu'er, then I'll leave this matter to you."

"Me? Can Jiu'er do it? ”

"Even the Queen Mother said that Jiu'er is a talented woman, how can it not work, in this way, Jiu'er, you can teach the queen mother first, Yang Meiren, Yu Xiurong, Concubine Hu and other people in the palace, if it is feasible, start to implement it from the household department, the household account is complicated, and finally it will be implemented to the entire dynasty, and you and Concubine Yang Yu Concubine Hu and others can also have something to do, otherwise stay in the palace every day, and you will be sick."

"Yes, official, Jiu'er knows." When Quan Jiu said this, he suddenly remembered the reminder of the Queen Mother, and said, "Official, it's time to think about the instructions and a congratulatory poem to the students in the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Don't worry, Jiu'er, I'll think of it."

At the time of the court meeting, I announced the list of ministers who would accompany me to Huiji for the funeral of the first emperor Lizong, and the main personnel of the various provinces and departments all accompanied him, Jia Yidao, Ma Tingluan, Weng Yinglong, Jiang Wanli, Chen Zongli and other important members of the court and the central government without exception, among which Ma Tingluan and Weng Yinglong can leave the Gongyuan after the end of the palace examination, and the marking affairs will be handed over to He Ji to lead other examiners and the marking officers to deal with.

After reading the list of ministers accompanying me, I said: "Li Boyu, is the Ministry of Rites ready to send the first emperor to Yongmu Mausoleum?" ”

Li Boyu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, because Ma Tingluan was busy with the provincial palace test in the first year of Xianchun, Li Boyu was responsible for the funeral.

"Back to Your Majesty, everything is ready to go."

"Well, very well, Master."

"The minister is here." Jia Rudao sat on the chair and folded his hands.

"With the order of the Privy Council, Xia Gui and Fan Wenhu personally led three hundred elite forbidden troops to accompany them, and at the same time ordered the Xiang troops along the way to be on duty to escort them, and not to be lazy."

"Obey."

"Thank you."

"The minister is here." The imperial guard commander Xie Daolin knelt down and answered.

"Xie Aiqing, flat. I ordered you to transfer 300 imperial guards to accompany me to Huiji, escort them along the road, and these 300 guards will be handed over to Yun Zhongfei, the new deputy commander. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the ministers obey."

"Xie Aiqing, I transferred three hundred guards, and Young Wei and Shen Mo also went to Jinhua to suppress bandits, and this task in the palace needs to be commanded by Aiqing personally."

"Your Majesty rest assured."

"Yes." I continued, "During my absence from the palace, the Queen Mother listened to the government and supervised the court, and all affairs were decided by the Queen Mother. ”

"Yes, your ministers obey."

Huiji Yongmu Mausoleum is located in the west of Huiji, a day and a half away from Lin'an, while Quanjiu's hometown is in the east of Huiji, a difference of at least half a day. It will take me about four to five days to go this time, although there is no major event, but according to the etiquette system of the Song Dynasty, if the emperor is not there, he needs to be supervised, that is, he needs to find an agent. I asked the Queen Mother to supervise the court, and no one gossiped.

Seeing that I had finished arranging important matters in the court, Jia seemed to have finished arranging important matters in the court, and got up and played: "Your Majesty, the minister Jia seems to have folded and played. ”

"Master, please speak."

"Your Majesty, Lu Wende, the secretary of the Jinghu system, went to the Privy Council, saying that the establishment of the border army of our dynasty is chaotic, and the army of various names is clustered, which is not conducive to overall planning, and proposes that the border army of each system and the soldiers recruited by themselves in various names be unified into the town border army."

Since the Song and Mongolian wars, the establishment of the border armies has been very chaotic, but most of the localities have gone their own way, and there are no drawbacks. This Lu Wende can make this suggestion, which can be regarded as some insight.

"Master, what is the opinion of your Privy Council?"

"Your Majesty, the Privy Council agrees with Lord Lu's proposal."

I thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll play it, the border army will be renamed the town border army, and any recruits in the future will also need to be included in the establishment of the town border army, so that all localities will be re-reported to the Privy Council and the military department for the record." ”

At present, the Yangzhou Army, the Xiangfan Army, and the Sichuan Army are the strongest in the border army.

The border army and the forbidden army were the main force of the Song Dynasty army. Although the Sichuan army ostensibly has Zhang Meng and Zhang Jue as the supreme commander, most of his subordinates are Meng Shuai's subordinates back then, and most of them are unruly, most of them go their own way, and no one obeys anyone.

The only one who is loyal to me, the emperor, is Li Tingzhi of Yangzhou, of course, Jia Yidao did not know this.

Just after five o'clock in the afternoon, the examiner He Ji loudly announced the end of the exam.

The candidates sat in their seats after handing in the test papers, waiting for the emperor to come and give instructions.

Among these candidates, except for the top ten in the palace examination who can enter the palace to face the saint, there is only this one chance to meet the emperor, of course, those who can become officials in the future are another matter.

When I sat down on the examiner's seat, all the candidates fell to their knees and shouted excitedly, "Hooray, hooray, hooray!" "Looking at these students who have gone through the cold window, I am also quite uneasy.

Scholars in all dynasties have adhered to the mentality of worrying about the country and the people, and only need to use it, which is actually the main driving force for change.

I got up and said, "Students, get even." ”

The candidates stood up, all eyes fixed on me, the emperor, and the room was silent, waiting for my instructions.

"All the students who participated in the exam, it is not easy for you to get here, how much sweat and hard work you have put in, only you know, no matter whether you can enter the top three in the end, I am proud of you." I moistened my throat and continued, "Today, the Mongols are eyeing each other, how should we face the Great Song Dynasty?" Concessions, blind concessions? Absolutely not, the land of the ancestors, how can I give it to others, I will not agree, what about you, are you willing to watch me towards the country getting smaller and smaller? ”

"We don't want to."

The first voice sounded, then the second, then the third, and then all the candidates replied firmly, "No." ”

I made a silent gesture and said: "I am very satisfied with your answer, with your determination, my Great Song Dynasty will definitely prosper, and the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties will definitely reappear in the Xianchun period." The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, not to mention that you scholars are the elite of our dynasty, and you should set an example and fight for the rise of my Great Song Dynasty for life. ”

I don't know who took the lead in applauding, interrupting my words, and then, the candidates all applauded, and for a while the applause was thunderous and the atmosphere was warm.

"The rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible" has also spread since then, becoming the most popular sentence in the first year of Xianchun.

He Ji suppressed his excitement, waved his hand, glanced at me and said a little nervously: "Candidates, be quiet, now please ask the emperor to write a poem for this scientific examination." ”